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• Commented on Afghanistan: US discouraged inquiry into mass killing of Taliban prisoners
  ...mistakes were made......
• Commented on HOWTO disassemble a banana
  Bite gently on the antipodes, then peel back. It was right here on Boing Boing some time ago. You get to eat whatever the weird little black part is that way. I had a friend curse me out because of...
• Commented on Ghosts reacting violently to holy water
  Saw one of the ghosts had a hot-foot. Thanks Holy Water! I think the control for this experiment wouldn't be plain water, but would have to be demon water....
• Commented on RIP Michael Jackson
  Baloney window made my evening. Absolutely delightful typo. Can't even picture what one would look like or look through. Who cares, that's a keeper....
• Commented on Chart showing policies that led to the econopocalypse
  Copied and pasted on word doc said rule. Most appreciated (but really, I should have had it down by now)....
• Commented on Chart showing policies that led to the econopocalypse
  Everyone pointing fingers at the "greater fools" who (m...? I can never remember) bought at, or near the top of the housing market and who deserve all the opprobrium of the more restrained of us who owe more appropriate (and...
• Commented on Hugo Chávez: Eat the Rich
  Well, I make the following comment fully understanding that it will be read as an apologia for Chavez, which it isn't. My opinion: Chavez has become a cartoon character. Every political lever he pulls should be labeled "Tin Pot". Still,...
• Commented on Nazi-bred super cows will save the dung beetles!
  I'd rather the effort was spent on resurrecting woolly mammoths, then miniaturizing and domesticating them, but that's just me....
• Commented on HOWTO Waterboard a Detainee: Analysis
  Well, since we didn't conduct experiments on twins, I guess we aren't Nazis. That there is even a debate in this country over whether to prosecute is proof positive of the cultural de-evolution of the last 8 (40?) years. I...
• Commented on British police medic uses nightstick to treat his involuntary patients
  Well, Thank goodness his jacket isn't labeled, "Police Proctologist". Bad-a-bing....
• Commented on America's bankers are oligarchs
  #32, I think the Obama administration did make their hard decision; They pushed Geithner into Treasury and brought on board Larry Summers. Obama's decision has already been made. He's going to support the banker's interests above all else. It's been...
• Commented on Poor Timothy Geithner
  Poor Timothy Geithner? Poor U.S. citizen after he's done with us. He and The Wall Street I-bankers, The Too-big-to-fail commercial banks, the private equity thieves, and the hedge-fund mob. When Geithner's plan is implemented, we're sunk....
• Commented on Brother Theodore on David Letterman
  Um, I commented earlier when posting seemed to be down. I hope that doesn't mean a bunch of repeat posts. My favorite quote from Brother Theodore (paraphrased): The difference between bad hospitals and good hospitals is that bad hospitals kill...
• Commented on Democratic North Dakota Senator Byron Dorgan Saw What Was Coming (and no one listened!)
  @#13, one thing Glass-Steagall did was insure a robust regional banking infrastructure. There were limits put in place that preserved local banks and limited large banks from encroaching/buying up local or regional banks. There was also a complete separation of...
• Commented on Man in "I [Heart] My Marriage" t-shirt arrested for domestic battery
  No mention of the drugs they were fighting over. Maybe they both suffer from GERD. Bet it was Prilosec then....
• Commented on E-Voting's Continuing Scandals
  Hmmm, I think #8 is a pretty smart guy....
• Commented on E-Voting's Continuing Scandals
  "Why have a "fuck up the election" button?" Well, take a moment to think (and breathe a bit) and you'll have your answer. Hint: It's cause it pays some particular people pretty good to fuck up the election....
• Commented on Which Side Are You On? Explaining what happened to labor in America
  Cripe, I obviously meant that corporations are "not" benignly despotic. Typo....
• Commented on Which Side Are You On? Explaining what happened to labor in America
  Boy, this is one cantankerous lot. My personal experience: there is only one thing worse than being a member of a union. That's not being a member of a union. But let me tell you, being confined by union rules...
• Commented on Pentagon plans to build giant spy zeppelin
  To counter the threat, do Russia and China start development on bi-planes?...
• Commented on Modern day Noah's Ark replica
  Proper size for Noah's Barque, maybe. What amazes me is how people have or find funding for these whims. I could never convince anyone to fund so much as a pound of hamburg. How do these nutballs do it?...
• Commented on What were arcades like, Grandpa?
  Ooh boy, I'm old enough to have played on pinball machines that only cost a dime (I was very young though). The only video game I remember from that time was Pong. Seriously, we had to pay to play Pong!...
• Commented on More unsold inventory piling up: Toyota stores unsold cars aboard ship
  So, we're in agreement then; The horrible future will, lucky for us, be limited to UNBELIEVABLE PAIN! Wallace Shawn should not delve into economic forecasting if that clip is, in the least, revelatory....
• Commented on More unsold inventory piling up: Toyota stores unsold cars aboard ship
  Zuzu, I'm not attempting to inflame an argument for argument's sake, so please don't take offense: Savers will be punished. Lenders will be punished. Debtors will be punished. The level of insane leverage that has occurred won't leave anyone pain-free....
• Commented on Slow motion video of grid of magnets lining up after being disturbed
  I wished it was even slower motion. As a whole, it was kind of like watching the last minute of a open water marlin catch, then watching the guy stand next to his fish for five hours....
• Commented on More unsold inventory piling up: Toyota stores unsold cars aboard ship
  Great, Oil Contango isn't enough, now we get Toyota Contango.... or not, these clunkers will probably never see higher prices. Zuzu, the sort of deflation we're seeing isn't the Moore's law sort. We are not seeing deflation due to technological...
• Commented on Interview with Warren Buffett about ukulele
  It seems every time I post on BB, I am a complete bummer, but I am starting to accept that I really am a total buzz-kill, online and off...so, to me, defining Buffet by his uke playing is like defining...
• Commented on Scary-ass job-loss chart comparing previous and current recession
  DONATAOLLA, you're right, this won't be the great depression, but it won't be 1980-82 either. Everyone is also right about how bad this chart is. Still, comparing unemployment to earlier periods, even as a percentage doesn't work unless you calculate...
• Commented on Scary-ass job-loss chart comparing previous and current recession
  @#29, BIFFPOW, I'm willing to bet that the biggest issue is indeed job losses. The elephant in the room is the balance of payments problem. The Bretton Woods II system, built upon mercantilist Asia and a profligate U.S. has to...
• Commented on Scary-ass job-loss chart comparing previous and current recession
  @#5, why do you think this is comparable to 1982? We are in a state of global deflation. No one born after WWII has ever seen this. This isn't 1982, which was a brutal recession to be sure, but not...